Søre Repøya is the largest and southern island of the two

Repøyane Repøyane is the name of two islands off Orvin Land at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The two islands, Nordre Repøya, Nordre and Søre Repøya, are located at the northern side of Glenhalvøya, at the mouth of Duvefjorden. The two islands are separate ...

, off Orvin Land at

Nordaustlandet Nordaustlandet (Anglicised as North East Land) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of . It lies north east of Spitsbergen, separated by Hinlopen Strait. Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice ca ...

Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...

. The island rises to a plateau of up to 240

m.a.s.l. Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level vari ...

It is separated from Glenhalvøya by the sound Gilessundet, and from Nordre Repøya by the sound Poortsundet. The island is named after Dutch whaler Outger Rep van Ootzaan.

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Islands of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub